Email Scams Options

I think I might have asked this before here or somewhere but to whom do we report email scams like these? I get emails like these that make it to my inbox every so often. This particular one is new to me.

"YAHOO BETA LOTTERY" <[email protected]>

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of One Million
Dollars (US$1,000,000,00 ) in the YEAR 2006/2007 YAHOO! Lottery
promotion
which is organized by YAHOO! LOTTERY INC for the introduction and
Launching of the new YAHOO! BETA MAIL which all YAHOO! subscribers are
required to switch to.
YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arranged and gathered all the e-mail
addresses of the people that are active online, among the Millions
that subscribe atYAHOO!, HOTMAIL and others we only selected THREE (3)
candidates as our winners after undergoing the random selection
process through Electronic Balloting System (E.B.S) without the
candidate applied, we congratulate you for being one of the people
selected.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

We are sorry that your Payment Approval File was sent to United Kingdom
due to the fact that we have 2 lucky winners in europe so that is why
you
will be cleared and paid simultaneously there with the other two
winners.
You are to contact our United Kingdom Location Claim Agent on or
before
your date of Claim.

YAHOO! Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days from
date
of Draw Notification in which Prize has been won.

Note: Any prize not claimed within this period 15 days) will be
forfeited.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:
Batch number.....................YBM-EBS-390AF
Reff number........................YBM-EBS-719AF
Winning number...............YBM-EBS-798AF


These Numbers above fall within the United Kingdom agent's Location
file,
you are requested to contact him and send your Identification Numbers
and
Personal Information to him;

Barr. Raymond Cox.
E-mail: [email protected]

You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to
facilitate them
and process the transfer of your fund with the appointed Paying Bank
Commonwealth Bank London.

Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him so
that
he will proceed further for your prize claim immediately:

PERSONAL INFORMATION
1.Name:...................
2. Nationlity:.........
3. Contact Address:.....
4. Telephone Number:.............................................
5. Fax Number:.........................................................
6. Date of Brith:....................................
7.
Occupation.............................................................
8.
Age.............................................................................
.......
9.Sex........................................................................
10. Attnative E-mail
address:...........................................................
11. Next of Kin of the Beneficlary
incase................................

You are advised to keep your winning information confidential to avoid
double claim and abuse of the program.

We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account.

Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!
You select how to transfer the prize money to you

Cheque Delivery To Your Address
Bank Account Transfer

KEEP THIS PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL YOU RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE MONEY.

NOTE THAT NOBODY OR EVEN THE APPOINTED BANK HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH,
DEDUCT/CUT OR GET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON THEY HAVE
BEEN
WARNED STRICTLY!

I think I might have asked this before here or somewhere but to whom do we report email scams like these? I get emails like these that make it to my inbox every so often. This particular one is new to me.

Yahoo probably has an email for just this kind of thing. Just last week I received an email from my bank to clink on the supplied link and update my password. The link looked almost exactly like the real bank website. And I get "phishing" from paypal and amazon lookalike scammers from time to time.
I just forward them (the fake emails) to the right folks.

And the right folks are who now? The scams that are over seas are pointless to report because the shear volume of them and the fact that there isn't really anything the government can do except say "shame on you Nigeria". But especially the scam sites that are mimicing legimate sites it'd be nice to know who to tell. I get fake myspace pages all the time. Sometimes I'll access somebodies profile and the exact same myspace login verification page pops up. Most of my friends have actually fallen for it and their sites get hacked and scrambled.

And the right folks are who now?

I'm getting to the point where I don't send them off anymore. All I get is an automated "thank you" email. More and more it's falling to our own responsibilty to keep from being scammed. For me everything of this nature is automatically suspect until proven otherwise.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush2.gif) The myspace thing was a scam?! I was wondering why nun of my list of passwords was working.

Anymore if you're myspace account gets phished the site will block you until you change your password - I just had to redo mine no fucking clue how my page got phished I and I alone know my password and guard it well. I never use my password anywhere but the offical myspace home page. Yet for some reason somebody what able to finger it out. And it gets clearer and clearer to me as to why I drink so much. Man one of you must have astral projected over here and watched as I typed it in or gained it as part of some telepathic osmossis or soemthing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)